Cargill,
Incorporated is an international provider of food, agricultural
and risk management products and services. With 101,000
employees in 59 countries, the company is committed to using its
knowledge and experience to collaborate with customers to help
them succeed.

To reach their goal of being the
global leader in nourishing people and potential, Cargill behave
in ways that support and leverage the many differences among
employees, suppliers and customers. Issues of difference are
everywhere. Leaders of the company consider these differences
vital assets that will help ensure ongoing success, loyalty,
innovation, customer focus and enriched communities. Valuing Differences Initiative
at Cargill is designed to leverage and maximize each employee's
unique talents and perspectives to improve business performance.
Cargill recognizes the importance of an inclusive work
environment in which the full range of individual differences in
our customers, employees and suppliers are recognized,
appreciated and valued. Cargill's diversity councils provide
employees with the opportunity to share ideas and information,
address issues and concerns, develop relationships and network
with other members as well as with top management...
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"Collaborate," – advises Georgann Occhipinti,
President of Diamond Associates. "I periodically collaborate with another
consulting firm as a way of developing my own. The group is comprised of
other consultants and business owners with very diverse backgrounds...More

→Jack Welch liked to say that
GE's uniqueness was based on its being a multibusiness enterprises with a
learning culture; that made its diversity a
competitive advantage rather than a handicap. At
GE
the sum is →greater than its parts as both business and people
diversity is
utilized in a most effective way. A major American enterprise with a diverse
group of huge businesses, GE is steeped in a
learning culture and it is this fact that makes GE a unique company...
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Steelcase was founded in 1912 by people with a
strong commitment to integrity and doing the right thing for their
employees, customers, business partners, associates and neighbors.In all of their diversity efforts, internal and
external, Steelcase sets the industry standard. For example, Steelcase has
the industry's first and largest Supplier Diversity Program. A look at Steelcase's diversity and outreach
initiatives shows that the company's expression of this commitment has
matured over time. And
their understanding of workplace diversity has broadened well beyond
issues of race and gender in hiring and promoting. A fundamental Steelcase
workforce strategy is to leverage the diversity of
ideas, skills
and
cultures of all people at all levels of the company.

Hewlett-Packard Way

To create an organization that could sustain
its
→competitive advantage regardless of marketplace
whims and what their competitors were building, HP founders based their
→corporate
culture on the integration
and reinforcement of critical opposites. This became known as the
Hewlett-Packard Way. HP has achieved "what
appears to be the greatest dichotomy: creating an environment that
celebrates individualism, but at the same time one that is also wholly
supportive of →teamwork. Although HP people are
taught to engage in
cross-functional
teams, they are also rated on the performance of decentralized business
units and →personal achievement."3... More

Tech Oasis

Tech Oasis is an
alliance of industry and government founded in early 1999. It is
a flourishing tech community rich with innovation, capital and
talent. It is also a business philosophy –
people, companies, associations, and government working together
for mutual gain and mutual success. Tech Oasis exists to encourage and foster a
rich, vibrant, and diverse ecosystem of interconnected people,
companies, associations and groups.
It helps you discover for
yourself the incredible diversity of tech related associations
and groups in Arizona. It
highlights and builds upon the existing strengths and advantages
of the region, showcases its successes, and interconnects its
efforts so as to build both internal
→synergies and external awareness.